| THE SONY PROJECT IS BEING ADAPTED FROM A COMIC BOOK SERIES BY QUENTIN TARANTINO & MATT WAGNER |
Sony Pictures is moving forward with a most intriguing movie mashup. The studio has set Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential) to write Django/Zorro. As Deadline revealed yesterday, this will be a big-screen continuation of a story that was hatched in a 7-issue crossover comic book series co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner.
The comic was published back in 2014 and was considered maybe the closest Tarantino might come to a sequel in the continuation of the adventures of the slave-turned-bounty hunter played by Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained. Tarantino directed that film, but won’t helm this one, though this film has his blessing to move forward at Sony, where he’s expected to make his final film as director. >>>In Early Development |
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Reviewing Broadway's Spring Season - With Tony Award nominations for the 2025-2026 season a week away, now is a good time to refresh your memory of what Deadline had to say about the fruits of a very busy Broadway spring. >>>30 Shows
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Waldron Re-Ups With 20th - Michael Waldron, co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of Chad Powers, has renewed his overall deal with 20th Television, the studio behind the Hulu comedy starring Glen Powell. >>>Teases S2
Roberts Pic Finds Writer - Laura Lekkos has come aboard to adapt Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestseller Expiration Dates, which is in development at Amazon MGM Studios with Emma Roberts starring. >>>Romance With A Twist
Deadline Launches Contenders Television Streaming Site - Deadline on Monday launched the stand-alone streaming site for Contenders Television, its showcase of the series, stars and creators making waves this awards season. A total of 29 panels from 15 networks and streamers took part in the two-day, live, in-person event at the DGA Theater this past weekend. >>> Watch |
MySpace, which launched in 2003, ushered in a joyous time for social media, where users discovered their favorite new band and debuted angular new haircuts for their friends.
The story of the site, which was subsequently bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in 2005, is told in MySpace, a documentary directed by Tommy Avallone and produced by Gunpowder & Sky, the company founded by former MTV boss Van Toffler.
The site was launched by Tom Anderson, otherwise known as everybody’s first friend, and Chris DeWolfe. DeWolfe spoke with Deadline ahead of premiere. >>>Read The Interview |
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"It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination" - Jimmy Kimmel on a joke he made last week about Donald and Melania Trump's relationship
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ExclusiveCole Sprouse is set to join Kathryn Newton and Storm Reid in Hot Year , the indie coming-of-age revenge thriller that will be directed by Roxy Sophie Sorkin. Sorkin wrote the pic that also stars Dove Cameron, J. Smith Cameron and Owen Painter.
ExclusiveDavid Weil has commenced production on Tyrant, with four new additions to the L.A.-lensed Amazon MGM culinary thriller: I May Destroy You's Paapa Essiedu, Heated Rivalry breakout Hudson Williams, musician Omar Apollo (Queer) and fashion and lifestyle creator Nara Smith. |
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117% - Surge in media & entertainment CEO pay in 2025
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🏢 Barry Diller's InterActive Corp. (IAC) is rebranding as People Inc. and also laying off several dozen staffers in a restructuring.
🎙️ Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Entertainment has signed a comprehensive multi-year deal with the tech giant. As part of the agreement, Wondery will have exclusive distribution and advertising rights to The Oprah Podcast on audio and video. 🤐 Rebel Wilson has stood by her assertion that she is a “champion of women” amid an explosive legal war with the star and producer of The Deb, her directorial debut. Giving evidence for the first time as part of a nine-day trial, Wilson said claims she is a bully are "absolute nonsense."
⛰️ Paramount has noted it will be 49.5%-owned by non-U.S. investors after completing a planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The stat came to light in a request for approval of the foreign ownership stake by the FCC.
🛟 Canal+ has revealed when it will float on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the second public listing for the French giant in less than two years. June 3 is the date the Paddington studio will "provide South African investors with the opportunity to invest in a global media and entertainment company," Canal+ said as it published Q1 financials.
🎬 Two-time Oscar-nominated producer Stacey Sher, who is behind more than two dozen critically acclaimed films such as Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich, has signed a first-look deal with MGM Television. |
| OBITUARIES
🕯️ Dylan Carter, a country singer from South Carolina who appeared during Season 24 on NBC’s The Voice in 2023, died Saturday, April 25, in a car accident. He was 24. 🕯️ Mariclare Costello, who played the devoted schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter on The Waltons, a free-spirited hippie-turned-vampire in the 1971 cult horror film Let’s Scare Jessica To Death and appeared in nine Broadway productions during the 1960s, died Friday, April 17, in Brooklyn, her family has announced. She was 90. 🕯️ Gerry Conway, the onetime Marvel editor-in-chief and groundbreaking comic book writer who redefined franchises such as The Amazing Spider-Man, has died, according to Marvel. He was 73. 🕯️ 2026 Deaths Photo Gallery
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| ON THE RADAR
Tue - CA gubernatorial debate
Wed - Alphabet, Meta & Amazon earnings; AMC Global Media upfront
Thu - Apple earnings
Fri - Deadline Reality TV Summit
Sat - Kentucky Derby; Olivia Rodrigo hosts SNL
Mon - The Met Gala
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A Good Night - George and Amal Clooney at the 51st Chaplin Award Gala, where the double Oscar winner was honored. In his acceptance speech, Clooney nodded briefly at the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger and addressed the shooting at last Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner. |
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